The Bluffs, Seas 1-3 Vis 60 Temp 76 It was rough seas on the way out to the Jack location in my stomach got pretty queasy. We started out our first dive at a location called the Bluffs. I started out being very social and talking to everybody on the boat but as my stomach be Kmart queasy I got more quiet trying to focus on not getting more sick. It's seem to take forever to get out to the dive location. I Donda all of my equipment and sat down at the 10 minute mark and that is when I started getting really sick. Fortunately I entered the water before I got to nauseated and felt immediate relief. I was diving with a bunch of professional people so they got off the boat and entered the water very quickly as deadeye. I had gotten rid of all the air and my BC so I went directly to the bottom and shoring that I was equalizing my ears all the way. My nausea immediately went away. I was diving at about 75 feet and, since I was driving on air I only had a bottom time of 30 minutes. The sea life down there was quite incredible and I drop down exactly on the location I was supposed to. It is basically a reef ledge about 15 feet high paralleling the shore from north to south. There was an immense amount of sea life down there though more the tiny fish than the larger pelagic's. I pulled out my go Pro on a POV stick and found the intermittently. The most interesting thing I saw however was a bout a 3 to 4 foot turtle digging and they have the seabed over top of one of the ledges. I was also amazed by the diverse and vivid colors of the coral ledge even at that deep location. Usually you lose the colors by the time you passed 60 feet but, even at 75 feet, the colors were pretty vibrant. On the go Pro I had attached the red filter that Dave had purchased during his trip to Australia. The fish seem to be a little more approachable and not as afraid and I saw a huge schools of baitfish hiding in the ledges. The area was fun also because they were quite a few trenches and crevices that you could explore. I was enjoying testing my buoyancy control also as I was hovering just a few feet above the ocean floor. My air was still pretty full when I reach the 30 minute mark so I simply sent it about 15 feet which gave me an additional 15 minutes of bottom time. I was enjoying drifting along with the current watching from above. In about 40 minutes I started my sent and deployed the surface marker buoy at about 20 feet. It was an improper deployment though as I actually drop the spool but fortunately caught it. I was doing all this while simultaneously attempting to not go above my 15 foot safety stop depth. I ended up getting the situation under control and finished a send them to the surface where two of the other divers join to me so they would not have to deploy their SMB. It was a couple of minutes before the boat came around and picked us up. The seas were about 3 to 4 foot waves though the frequency was pretty tight making the surface quite active. Boarding the boat was interesting and I was back on taking all my equipment off.

Captain Kurlz We been new with the captain maneuver the boat over to a new location called Captain kurlz. The dive briefing was done quite well. Unfortunately, during the 10 minutes pre-diver morning when I sat down with my equipment I started getting horrifically sick again so I pivoted around and threw up over the side of the boat once more. After that episode was over I felt much better and they called time to dive, dive, dive just as I was getting the last of my equipment on and I was in the water within 15 seconds. The water temps were at 78° so I did not think I was going to get that cold but, because I was only wearing my Shorty, I started feeling a chill about 15 minutes into the dive. The dive was at a slightly shower at 65 feet and my bottom time request by the dive captain was 30 minutes though the nitrox air divers were given 50 minutes. I found at the bottom to be quite beautiful yet again though not as spectacular as the buffs Bluffs it was definitely beautiful and full of life again. The current there felt like it was a little heavier though I started ascending at 20 minutes as I was feeling a little too cold to continue on. I joined a couple of other divers while ascending. As stated in jupiterdivecenter.com: Captain Kurl’sJupiter Dive Reef, Captain Kurls Local Reefs One of our shallower Local Reefs at between 58′ and 75′, Captain Kurl’s gives one the impression of drifting over a series of aquariums. The ledge forms a series of cul-de-sacs, each one with myriad fish and critters. Goliath groupers may be seen at the deep part of the ledge while green morays generally stay closer to the top. Loggerhead, green, and hawksbill turtles can be found both on top of the ledge or napping at the bottom. Nurse sharks, some of them huge, nestle under the ledge. An occasional reef shark prefers to cruise the top into the current. Blue, queen, gray, and French Angelfish, along with their rock beauty cousins give the top of the reef their vibrant colors. Reef, four-eye, and Spotfin Butterfly fishes (usually in pairs) populate the reef for its entirety. As a second dive in a two-tank trip, Captain Kurl’s leaves the diver with a renewed awe in the miracles of marine life.